Greedy gits

[ukbandit]

well the goverment is stopping funding to a special needs school cos thier skint! these kids have got it hard enough now and most of them for the rest of thier lives. i think the mp's who scrounge all the money they can from us are utter low life's. who bestowed these priverliges on them? probably mp's before them. maybe if they used the bus, train, or flew in the cheap seats and paid for thier own family holiday and morgages and stop claiming for SOD knows what else at our exspense then there would be enough for these kids to get the help they need. total arse ole's. i have never voted because every goverment i have ever seen has always been the same. them first the rest last.. thats my winge over with. ba%^$tds!!!!!!!

[slofox]

Yep. I have to agree. It's funny how united the "gummint" and the "opposition" are when it comes to perks innit?
Housing allowances to live in your own house? Fukkin bullshit!!!

[Laava]

I will vote for you guys, honest! The Statler and Warldorf party!

[=cJ=]

Go work and 80 hour week and see how you cope.

Then couple it with the fact that you've put your hand up to be one of the least respected members of society because you believe you can make things better.

I think I'm pretty OK with a few perks here and there.

[Dave Lobster]

Didn't I see somewhere that the MPs cost us $7.5million per year, but the benefit system costs us $11million per day.

Wouldn't some of the 'benefits' be a better target for people's vitriol?

[Fatt Max]

Go work and 80 hour week and see how you cope.

Then couple it with the fact that you've put your hand up to be one of the least respected members of society because you believe you can make things better.

I think I'm pretty OK with a few perks here and there.

I really hope that's a wind up bro....

[peasea]

well the goverment is stopping funding to a special needs school cos thier skint! these kids have got it hard enough now and most of them for the rest of thier lives. i think the mp's who scrounge all the money they can from us are utter low life's. who bestowed these priverliges on them? probably mp's before them. maybe if they used the bus, train, or flew in the cheap seats and paid for thier own family holiday and morgages and stop claiming for SOD knows what else at our exspense then there would be enough for these kids to get the help they need. total arse ole's. i have never voted because every goverment i have ever seen has always been the same. them first the rest last.. thats my winge over with. ba%^$tds!!!!!!!

We missed our chance to repeat Bastille Day, July 14th I think.

Still, there's always next year. Swish, thud....

[idb]

So no-one here gets their accommodation paid for if they work away from home?

[Grahameeboy]

It will not be that simple...special need schools get funding based on students and needs..less students..less funding..creates a problem for a school as they have to contribute to and only get so many teacher aid hours.

Nats school were given $211,000 to modify the school, plus more hours that she was entitled to so it's not all that bad...

[scracha]

Go work and 80 hour week and see how you cope.
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In the "real world" there's quite a few people working these sorts of hours and not getting all the perks.

I don't believe for a second MP's do 80 hours a week.

[JimO]

In the "real world" there's quite a few people working these sorts of hours and not getting all the perks.

I don't believe for a second MP's do 80 hours a week.

you need to count up all those bellamys hours

[Milts]

Tom Scott says it so well:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/carto...1886/Tom-Scott
(today's cartoon, July 4)


Although I think those who disbelieve the claim that MPs work an 80 hour week would be surprised at how much they DO work... those who represent an electorate spend a lot of time campeigning, shaking hands etc, and when parliament is in session they sit until 10 pm. Not to mention party meetings, cabinet meetings, briefing meetings for ministers, select committee responsibilities, time spent drafting and reading bills... etc etc ad infinitum.

[peasea]

In the "real world" there's quite a few people working these sorts of hours and not getting all the perks.

I don't believe for a second MP's do 80 hours a week.

As much as it pains me to tell you this; some do. I know the PA of a fairly prominent MP who enlightened me as to how many hours some of them do work and let's not forget that some of them are also company directors (or whatever) and spend many hours working at that too. I don't doubt the hours that they do but I know truckers who would do almost as many (limited only by the law and sheer exhuastion) who earn sfa compared to an MP, and they have to pay their own mortgage and drive themselves home.

[James Deuce]

There's no point highlighting the plight of special needs kids on KB. Most KBers think they should have been terminated in utero or immediately after birth if they weren't detected in utero.

Graham: You're talking from an historic viewpoint. We're getting invoiced by the Kindy and WEIT at $150/term each, and the local school have already told us that we will be expected to pay $250/week for the ESW we will require, should we plan on attending that school. The grants that pay for fencing and private changing areas have been suspended.

National repeatedly telegraphed their intention to remove all special needs kids from schools well before the election campaign. There are no local schools that will take special needs kids on and there are no plans to open regional special schools with the attendant short buses required.

However, we are legally bound to prove that kids are attending school from the age of 6, so the only option open to us is home schooling or prosecution. This does mean that one of us won't be able to work for the next 15 years.

Not that any of the arseholes on KB who think it's funny to use depictions of special needs to kids to make a humorous point will give a crap. Nor do I would suspect 99% of KB posters give a crap when pressed either.

[BMWST?]

Why should a family be penalised for the fact that you need to work in another town for many many hours per week.I dont think the idea is wrong.There have been queries on this site about people working away from home and the consensus seems to be that you should,at a minimum never be out of pocket.However there has to be vigilance that the system is not manipulated to make a gain....doing so surely reeks of tax avoidance type activities.But who is to blame.The people doing it or the people administering it.WHO does administer it?
Maintaining a home out of town purely for the appearance that one is living AWAY from home seems to reek of the above.I dont think there is anything wrong with upgrading to a bigger place so the family can live here.However if the taxpayer effectively BUYS the place surely there should be a pro rata profit share when the pllace is sold.